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When Your Feelings Disagree with God’s Word
By Dave Jenkins | Equipping You in GraceYour feelings are real, but God’s Word is more reliable. In this episode of Equipping You in Grace, Dave Jenkins continues the series Theology in a Confused World by exploring how Christians can trust Scripture when their emotions, desires, and experiences seem to tell them something different.Drawing from Psalm 42, Romans 8:1, and other biblical passages, Dave explains how to bring fear, guilt, shame, temptation, and suffering before the Lord. He also shares personal encouragement about grief, caregiving, rest, and receiving help from fellow believers.Listen or Watch
When Your Feelings Disagree with God’s Word
God created us as emotional beings. Scripture gives us language for joy, grief, fear, longing, and lament. Trusting the Lord does not require pretending that our emotions do not exist.But our feelings are not infallible. We can feel abandoned while remaining loved by God, feel condemned while justified in Christ, or feel drawn toward something Scripture identifies as sinful. Our emotions need to be understood in light of what God has revealed.In This Episode
- Why feelings matter without becoming our final authority.
- How Psalm 42 models honest emotion and hope in God.
- The difference between conviction and condemnation.
- Why Christian identity rests in union with Christ.
- How to answer fear, shame, and temptation with biblical truth.
- The danger of interpreting Scripture through experience.
- How the Holy Spirit renews our desires and affections.
- The importance of prayer, rest, and fellowship in difficult seasons.
Key Scriptures
- Psalm 42:5–11: Bringing a troubled soul back to hope in God.
- Romans 8:1: No condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 5:1: Peace with God through justification by faith.
- Hebrews 13:5: God’s promise never to leave or forsake His people.
- Romans 12:2: Transformation through the renewal of the mind.
- John 17:17: Sanctification through the truth of God’s Word.
- Galatians 5:16–23: Walking by the Spirit and bearing His fruit.
- Proverbs 3:5–6: Trusting the Lord rather than our own understanding.
